John Wright
@thewrightjohn.bsky.social
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John Wright
@thewrightjohn.bsky.social
· Nov 14
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands"
And if the republic no longer stands? What then?
And if the republic no longer stands? What then?
Boz Scaggs
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor
November 7, 2025
Mixed feelings.
Good music, and his voice has held up A LOT better than some other aging artists we've heard, but the show was shorter than the program claimed (by 15 minutes), and it was very light on hits.
1/x
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor
November 7, 2025
Mixed feelings.
Good music, and his voice has held up A LOT better than some other aging artists we've heard, but the show was shorter than the program claimed (by 15 minutes), and it was very light on hits.
1/x
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Boz Scaggs
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor
November 7, 2025
Mixed feelings.
Good music, and his voice has held up A LOT better than some other aging artists we've heard, but the show was shorter than the program claimed (by 15 minutes), and it was very light on hits.
1/x
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor
November 7, 2025
Mixed feelings.
Good music, and his voice has held up A LOT better than some other aging artists we've heard, but the show was shorter than the program claimed (by 15 minutes), and it was very light on hits.
1/x
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genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people
September 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.
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A lot of people are going to learn a lot about Charlie Kirk tomorrow. They will read his own words and see video clips.
Then they will ask why corporate America, the NY Yankees, the mainstream press, and MAGA valorized a man who spent his life committed to hate.
Then they will ask why corporate America, the NY Yankees, the mainstream press, and MAGA valorized a man who spent his life committed to hate.
September 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
A lot of people are going to learn a lot about Charlie Kirk tomorrow. They will read his own words and see video clips.
Then they will ask why corporate America, the NY Yankees, the mainstream press, and MAGA valorized a man who spent his life committed to hate.
Then they will ask why corporate America, the NY Yankees, the mainstream press, and MAGA valorized a man who spent his life committed to hate.
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It would be irresponsible not to assume that the amount of violence the president, intentionally or not, will be prone to urging his most unstable followers to embark on...in retaliation for the assassination of Charlie Kirk...is something every U.S. citizen should hold in their mind as high risk.
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It would be irresponsible not to assume that the amount of violence the president, intentionally or not, will be prone to urging his most unstable followers to embark on...in retaliation for the assassination of Charlie Kirk...is something every U.S. citizen should hold in their mind as high risk.
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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
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The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
July 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
To those who voted for Trump because of his anti-war position, please DM me your address so I can send you a large bag of dicks. 🖕🏻
June 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
To those who voted for Trump because of his anti-war position, please DM me your address so I can send you a large bag of dicks. 🖕🏻
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You want Trump gone, Elon?
Then tell all of the truths you know, and put your hundreds of billions behind every Dem candidate who's running anywhere.
Trump is irredeemable. You still have a chance to be on the right side.
Then tell all of the truths you know, and put your hundreds of billions behind every Dem candidate who's running anywhere.
Trump is irredeemable. You still have a chance to be on the right side.
June 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
You want Trump gone, Elon?
Then tell all of the truths you know, and put your hundreds of billions behind every Dem candidate who's running anywhere.
Trump is irredeemable. You still have a chance to be on the right side.
Then tell all of the truths you know, and put your hundreds of billions behind every Dem candidate who's running anywhere.
Trump is irredeemable. You still have a chance to be on the right side.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
IT FINALLY HAPPENED!
Today is the day I was waiting in the Costco food court when they called order # 8-6-7
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
Today is the day I was waiting in the Costco food court when they called order # 8-6-7
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny
YouTube video by TommyTutoneVEVO
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June 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
IT FINALLY HAPPENED!
Today is the day I was waiting in the Costco food court when they called order # 8-6-7
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
Today is the day I was waiting in the Costco food court when they called order # 8-6-7
youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo?...
Hypocritical piles of human waste!
May 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hypocritical piles of human waste!
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“Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November - not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values. We need to knock off the rust of poll-tested language, decades of stale decorum. It’s obscured our better instincts.” - Pritzker
April 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November - not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values. We need to knock off the rust of poll-tested language, decades of stale decorum. It’s obscured our better instincts.” - Pritzker
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📌"He's betrayed our national security. He will do so again. He's compromised our elections. He will do so again. You will not change him. You can't constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less. Decency matters not at all."
-Adam Schiff to GOP in 2020
-Adam Schiff to GOP in 2020
April 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
📌"He's betrayed our national security. He will do so again. He's compromised our elections. He will do so again. You will not change him. You can't constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less. Decency matters not at all."
-Adam Schiff to GOP in 2020
-Adam Schiff to GOP in 2020
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Meanwhile Trump, who goes on & on about the China threat, is ... letting China have the New Three, refocusing the US on gasoline cars and fossil fuel extraction.
We're not competing with China, we're surrendering to China, because our home-grown reactionaries have decided that cleantech is Lib.
We're not competing with China, we're surrendering to China, because our home-grown reactionaries have decided that cleantech is Lib.
April 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Meanwhile Trump, who goes on & on about the China threat, is ... letting China have the New Three, refocusing the US on gasoline cars and fossil fuel extraction.
We're not competing with China, we're surrendering to China, because our home-grown reactionaries have decided that cleantech is Lib.
We're not competing with China, we're surrendering to China, because our home-grown reactionaries have decided that cleantech is Lib.
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
April 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?